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PROCREATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
Synonyms:
breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("procreation" is a kind of...):
sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procreation"):
crossbreeding; interbreeding; miscegenation (reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons))
generation; multiplication; propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)
Derivation:
procreate (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)
